HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Protestantism, Roman Britain, Edward Gibbon
13 Nov 2020
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1. 3 the influence of progress on modern historiography. Arnold ch. 3: how does arnold define antiquarianism, and how was antiquarianism an answer to the. History" was under siege in the 16th century by sceptics pyrrhonists, who saw it as inaccurate and useless. They said history was a rhetorical history, guided by classical principles of literary composition. And the desire to write narratives and to present lessons from past political events. The religious conflicts turned on the need of the truth". This might seems weird, the most all- embracing bias (faith) has been responsible for developing tools designed for to produce objective truths. The factual truth and religious truth were bounded together in that time. Both protestant and catholics turned to history to support their opposing claims to authority. P: as a weapon against c. and to help themselves; Both unsophisticated: the point was to assemble a mountain of evidence that would serve as a bulwark against their enemies.
